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RDF Semantics

The elephant strikes again

Danny Ayers and Bill de hÓra got into a bit of back and forth on RDF and Bill’s response reminded me again of the blind wise men and the elephant. Each person describes a different creature when asked to describe the whole from just the part they touched: one touching the leg assumes the creature is a large, stumpy […]

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RDF

Zoe says read this or Scoble gets it

Zoë, via her goduncle Danny Ayers, sent me an email telling me I should write about an excellent Semantic Web Tutorial by Ivan Herman. I told her, well I told Danny to tell her, that I wrote the Bad Words (”Semantic Web”) once today, and that I may end up banned from *Scoble’s RSS feed aggregator for this. She, […]

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Semantics

I am an evil woman

I don’t work for Google, therefore I am exempt from the pledge of “Do no evil” and do evil. Daily if I can. I don’t smoke, fool around with other people’s husbands (or wives, dogs, or horses for that matter); nor do I do drugs, and I drink in moderation. I don’t run old people […]

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Semantics

The meta wars

For all that people are saying 2006 is going to be the year of this or that, I think that 2006 is going to be the year of metadata, and as such, we’re about to see some of the bloodiest battles in blogging. She who controls the metadata rules the world, and if the sly […]

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Semantics Travel

Google base II

Made it to the airport, despite moose in the road. First time at an airport since 9/11. Had to unload each laptop in their own trays, my shoes, my coat, and my camera into separate trays (not to mention my two bags). But security was very nice and helpful. And hey! Wireless everywhere! I’ve been […]